Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) - The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) is intended to be a permanent global system for observations, modelling and analysis of marine and ocean variables needed to support operational ocean services worldwide.

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) - "An International Partnership in Geological Oceanography" -- Texas A&M University

Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) - An international programme to assess more accurately, and understand better the processes controlling, regional to global and seasonal to interannual fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere, surface ocean and ocean interior, and their sensitivity to climate changes.

Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) - The LOICZ Project focuses on the area of the earth's surface where land, ocean and atmosphere meet and interact. The overall goal of this project is to determine at regional and global scales: the nature of that dynamic interaction; how changes in various components of the Earth system are affecting coastal zones and altering their role in global cycles; to assess how future changes in these areas will affect their use by people; to provide a sound scientific basis for future integrated management of coastal areas on a sustainable basis.

Coastal and Shelf Sea Interactions (COIN). - The overall aim of the NERC CCMS "COIN" project is to improve the understanding of the active processes in coastal and shelf seas and their essential interactions, thereby enabling the development of coupled models for forecasting and management into the next century.

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) - The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) is a component of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and is the most ambitious oceanographic experiment undertaken to-date.

INlet Dynamics Initiative : Algarve (INDIA). - The INDIA Project is motivated primarily by a requirement to improve understanding of the interacting hydrodynamic and sedimentological processes at work in the European coastal zone and to develop improved methodologies to predict changes in morphology. Undertaking such a study requires a dynamic natural field site where processes are sufficiently active to result in observable changes in the physical environment over a time span commensurate with a realistic field campaign.

PRe-Operational Modelling In the Seas of Europe (PROMISE). - PROMISE's objectives are to develop a framework in which to optimise the application of existing pre-operational dynamical models of the North Sea and to quantify sediment exchange rates and scales between coast and the near-shore. PROMISE is an EU-RTD Project.

PROcesses of Vertical Exchange in Shelf Seas (PROVESS). - PROVESS is a joint European MAST III funded interdisciplinary study of vertical fluxes of properties through the water column and the surface and bottom boundaries based on the integrated application of new measuring techniques, new advances in turbulence theory and new models.

Joint Evaluation of Remote sensing Information for Coastal defence and Harbour Organisations (JERICHO). - The principal objective of the JERICHO project is to investigate which parts of Britain's coastline may have experienced an increase in wave height similar to that observed by satellites in the surrounding seas. The project is funded by the British National Space Centre and the UK Environment Agency.

Molecular Ecology of the Photosynthetic Procaryote Prochlorococcus (PROMOLEC). - The EC MAST III project is centered on an important and recently discovered genus of marine photosynthetic microorganism: Prochlorococcus. This prokaryote proliferates in oligotrophic areas, including the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and is the tiniest and numerically the most abundant photosynthetic organism and accounts for a large part (up to 50%) of the photosynthetic biomass and primary production in these areas.

Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS). - LOIS was a 6 year project (1992 - 1998) of the UK's Natural Environment Research Council involving over 360 scientists from 11 institutes and 27 universities. This project was the United Kingdom's contribution to LOICZ. It aims were to quantify and simulate the fluxes and transformations of materials (sediments, nutrients, contaminants) into and out of the coastal zone, extending from the catchment to the edge of the continental shelf. The main study area, embracing river catchments, estuaries and coastal seas, was the UK East Coast from Berwick upon Tweed to Great Yarmouth, concentrating on the Humber and its catchment, and to a lesser extent the River Tweed. The shelf edge study was focused on an area to the west of Scotland.

Ocean Colour for the Determination of Water Column Biological Processes (BIOCOLOR) - The aim of this study is relate changes in the properties of the water column and associated sucessions in the phytoplankton with changes in optical properties and ocean colour. Models based on these relationships will be developed and validated. These models will facilitate the interpretation of measurements of ocean colour (remote or in-situ) in terms of the temporal and spatial structures of phytoplankton communities.

Physiological Ecology of a Pelagic crustacean (PEP). - Impact of a Climatic Gradient on the Physiological Ecology of a Pelagic crustacean - a study of the functional marine biodiversity as a basis for understanding ecosystem structure, dynamics and resilience is focused on the Northern krill. The patterns of diversity in this species - an important component of Atlantic communities - will be investigated at specific locations in the north-eastern Atlantic, the Kattegat and the Meditarranean.

Microbial Ecosystem Dynamics (MEDEA). - MEDEA is a combined experimental and theoretical approach towards understanding the mechanisms determining microbial ecosystem dynamics in the photic zone. Centered around an idealized conceptual/mathematical model, questions are addressed concerning mechanisms regulating structure and function of the food web.

US GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics (GLOBEC) - a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea.

Trans-Atlantic Study of Calanus finmarchicus (TASC). - The objective is to understand the physical and biological processes which control the population dynamics of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus, a key zooplankton species in the north-east Atlantic. Establishing the relationship between the physical and biological factors affecting annual recruitment and reproduction of the species is an essential step towards predicting the consequences of future climate change.

Variability of Exchanges In the Northern Seas (VEINS). - The overall objective of VEINS is to measure and to model the variability of the fluxes between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean with a view on implementing a longer term system of critical measurements needed to understand the high-latitude oceans steering role in decadal climate variability.

A_Model for Biodiversity Studies : Integrating Environmental and Population Variation (AMBIOS). - The objectives of this project are to determine the interrelationships between the physical properties of ecosystems and the ecology of organisms in the generation of biodiversity, to measure objectively the resultant diversity and to produce operational concepts of biodiversity which are of general applicability and importance.

MAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response (MTP II-MATER) - The overall objective of the MTP II MATER is to study and to quantify the triggering and controlling mechanisms of mass and energy transfer between the different compartments (land - sea, sea - atmosphere, water - sediment, living - non living, pelagos - benthos), in contrasting trophic environments (from eutrophic to oligotrophic) of the Mediterranean Sea and to investigate the ecosystem response to such a transfer.

Monitoring the Atlantic inflow toward the Arctic (MAIA) - The overall objective of MAIA is to develop an inexpensive, reliable system based on coastal sea-level data for monitoring the inflows of Atlantic Water to the northern seas. Available observation systems, including standard tidal stations, will be used to obtain transport estimates with a time resolution of less than a week and show that the method is generic and can be applied to a similar monitoring of other regions.

Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics - aims to advance our understanding of the global ocean ecosystem and how it responds to global climate change. GLOBEC investigates the links between climate and marine ecosystems.

Coastal Habitat Management Plans (CHaMPs) - The project is intended to help develop and trial a methodology to allow EU member states to fulfil essential obligations under Article 6.2 of the Habitats Directive. In the UK this is reinforced by MAFF High Level Targets for Flood and Coastal Defence, and will support the delivery of Biological Action Plans aimed at securing the management of Natura 2000 sites.

European North Atlantic Margin (ENAM). - The overall objective of the ENAM II project is to quantify and model large-scale sedimentary processes and material fluxes in the north Atlantic and to assess their relation to the variability of oceanic and cryospheric processes. The timing, causes and flow behaviour of mass wasting events and the relationship between mass wasting events and deep-sea fan developments are to be determined in order to understand the spatial and temporal variability of marine systems from the shelf edge to the continental slope and the deep sea.

European Sub-Polar Ocean Programme (ESOP-2). - The goal of ESOP-2 is to understand the thermohaline circulation in the Greenland Sea, its sensitivity, and impact on global ocean circulation, building on a unique combination of novel experimental techniques, modelling and experience gained under ESOP-1.

BENthic biology and Geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal Locality (BENGAL). - The BENGAL project is a high resolution temporal and spatial study of the BENthic biology and Geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal Locality. This project has the general objective of understanding how the physics, chemistry and biology of the abyssal benthic boundary layer respond to, and modify the incoming chemical signal from the overlying surface layers and thus affect the palaeoceanographic record in the underlying sediment.

Baltic Sea System Study (BASYS). - BASYS aims to further the understanding of the susceptibility of the Baltic Sea to external forcing and to improve the quantification of past and present fluxes in the area.

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment GRACE) - GRACE will be able to map the Earth's gravity fields by making accurate measurements of the distance between two satellites, using GPS and a microwave ranging system. It will provide scientists from all over the world with an efficient and cost-effective way to map the Earth's gravity fields with unprecedented accuracy. The results from this mission will yield crucial information about the distribution and flow of mass within the Earth and it's oceans and surroundings.

Surf and Swash Zone Mechanics (SASME) - The project investigates the physical processes which take place in the surf zone on a coast with and without structures. The project shall lead to significantly improved description of the cross-shore and longshore transport, which mainly occurs within the surf zone.

Canary Islands Azores Gibraltar Observations (CANIGO) - The main goal of the CANIGO project is to understand the functioning of the marine system in the Canary-Azores-Gibraltar region of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and its links with the Alboran Sea through comprehensive interdisciplinary basin scale studies.

Coastal Study Of Three - Dimensional Sand Transport Processes And Morphodynamics (COAST-3D). - The purpose of the COAST3D project is to improve understanding of the physics of coastal sand transport and morphodynamics, and to produce validated modelling tools, and methodologies for their use, in a form suitable for coastal zone management.

Sediment Transport Modelling in Marine Coastal Environments (SEDMOC). - The general objective of the SEDMOC project is to fill gaps in our existing knowledge of transport processes of non-cohesive sediments in the marine coastal environment, and to find suitable parameterizations of those processes which will lead to improvements in existing operational (large-scale) morphological models.

COSINUS Project. - Prediction of Cohesive Sediment transport and bed morphodynamics in estuaries and coastal zones with Integrated Numerical Simulation models.

Louisiana-Texas Shelf Physical Oceanography Program (LATEX) - The LATEX Program is a six-year oceanographic research initiative that has as its principal objective the identification of key dynamical processes governing the circulation, transport, and cross-shelf mixing of the waters on the Texas-Louisiana shelf

Östersjön, Toren och Algblomning - En historik. - This site is in the Swedish language. It´s a description of the Baltic sea, its ecology, geology and history. It concentrate on the algal-bloom situation.

European Shore Platform Erosion Dynamics (ESPED) - Aims to improve scientific knowledge and understanding of the development and downwearing of shore platforms and of the relationships between shore platform change and the rates of retreat of sea cliffs on the landward side of the platforms.

Electronic DAta Publishing for MAST (EDAP) - The objective of the EDAP project is to develop know-how on Electronic DAta Publishing for MAST research projects and to make available, by the end of the project, a guideline on electronic data publishing. This is achieved by looking at three different MAST research projects.

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) - Ocean Drilling Program in detail - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Coloumbia University - Borehole Research Group.

Long Range Shallow Water Robust Acoustic Communication Links (ROBLINKS) - The overall aim of ROBLINKS is to develop and test robust coherent acoustic communications at long ranges in shallow water at data rates in excess of 1 kbit/s.

Climate Variability and Predictability Study (CLIVAR) - An interdisciplinary research effort within the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) focussing on the variability and predictability of the slowly varying components of the climate system. It investigates the physical and dynamical processes in the climate system that occur on seasonal, interannual, decadal and centennial time-scales.

Sapropels And Palaeoceanography (SAP). - The overall aim of this EC MAST III funded project is to better understand the (paleo) functioning of the eastern Mediterranean and to determine its role in the global environment by studying characteristic biogeochemical processes.

Atlantic Data Base for Exchange Processes at the Deep Sea Floor (ADEPD) - will establish a network of European researchers involved in geochemical and biological processes in the deep sea of the Atlantic. The network will be used for the exchange of biogeochemical benthic data and aims at integrating present knowledge of processes at the deep sea floor.

Southern Nutrient Study (SONUS) - A study into the "eutrophication" of estuarine and coastal waters by a team at the Southampton Oceanography Centre. (Site under development)

European Rivers and Oceans System 2000 project (EROS2000) - The EROS 2000 database contains 166 scientific abstracts, contact details for 130 scientists and data submitted from 8 research cruises carried out in the north-western and western Mediterranean Sea as part of the European Rivers and Ocean System 2000 project. The application, having modest system requirements, allows the user to visualise and maintain the project data in an efficient manner.

Air Sea GAS EXchange MAGE (ASGAMAGE) - A research project investigating the way the sea and the atmosphere exchange greenhouse gases.

Mediterranean Hydrographic Atlas (MEDATLAS) - The main goals of the MEDATLAS project are to update the available data sets of temperature and salinity profiles measured in the Mediterranean Sea, to check its dataquality, to merge compiled datasets, update climatological statistics and to make the numerical data available for other users.

Mutlidisciplinary Oceanographic Research in the Eastern Boundary of the North Atlantic (morena) - Measures, understands and models shelf-ocean exchange in a typical coastal upwelling region of the eastern boundary layer of the subtropical ocean.

Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey (CPR) - Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science runs the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey, a long term plankton survey in the North Atlantic and North Sea. The database is online.

Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling Project (OCCAM) - The OCCAM project has developed two high resolution (1/4 and 1/8 degree) models of the World Ocean - including the Arctic Ocean and marginal seas such as the Mediterranean. The project is being carried out by researchers at the Southampton Oceanography Centre in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of East Anglia and Edinburgh.

Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX) - BALTEX is designed as a cage experiment to assess the total heat and water flux divergence of the BALTEX area. The basic BALTEX programme elements include numerical modelling, data assimilation, experimental and numerical process studies, re-analysis of existing data sets, and application of remote sensing.

Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Project (TAO) - The TAO Array of moored buoys measures oceanographic and surface meteorological variables critical for improved detection, understanding and prediction of seasonal-to-interannual climate variations originating in the tropics, most notably those related to the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

Autonomous System for Monitoring Air-Sea Fluxes (AutoFlux) - The study aims to develop and test (in both laboratory and the field) an autonomous atmospheric measuring system which will measure surface stress, sensible and latent heat flux and also carbon dioxide flux.

MARine PRODuctivity (MARPROD) - Its aim is to develop coupled modelling and observational systems for the pelagic ecosystem, with emphasis on physical factors affecting zooplankton population dynamics. Marine Productivity provides a major UK contribution to the international Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics project (GLOBEC).

Jason - an oceanography mission to monitor global ocean circulation, discover the tie between the oceans and atmosphere, improve global climate predictions, and monitor events such as El Niño conditions and ocean eddies. The Jason-1 satellite carries a radar altimeter and it is a follow-on mission to the highly successful TOPEX/Poseidon mission. It is joint mission between France and USA. The satellite will be launched in May 2000.

North Pacific Marine Research Program (NPMR) - NPMR is dedicated to scientific research in the Bering Sea and adjacent waters, with the goal of better understanding the oceanic and ecological systems.

Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (PRIME) - aims to lay the basis for mathematical models to describe the role of plankton in biogeochemical fluxes within the oceans which have implications in climate regulation.

Processes in Regions of Fresh Water Influence (PROFILE) - studies the role of physical processes controlling water-property distributions, suspended sediments controlling the availability of light, nutrients and phytoplankton growth. The project comprises development of a 3-D nearshore model, measurements in contrasted ROFIs and comparisons between them.

Black Sea Ecosystem Processes and Forecasting/Operational Database Management System - Project started in 1999 as co-operation between major regional marine research institutions with support of NATO Science for Peace Programme to explore, quantify and predict ecosystem variability of the Black Sea

North Sea Model Advection Dispersion Study (NOMADS ) - an intercomparison of advection-dispersion models for the North West European continental shelf presently available and being used at various institutes within the European Union.

Ocean State Estimation Projects (OSEP) - Ocean modeling, fitting and state estimation strategies (data assimilation) at Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Prediction of Aggregated-Scale Coastal Evolution (PACE). - The project is the European Part of a worldwide network of research projects dealing with the prediction of the largescale evolution of sandy coasts, at decadal and century scales.

Regional STOrm, WAve and SUrge Scenarios for the 2100 century (STOWASUS-2100) - Aims to study severe storms, surges and waves in the present climate and in a scenario with increased CO2-concentration. More specifically the project is a joint atmospheric/oceanographic numerical modelling effort aiming at constructing and analysing storm, wave and surge climatologies for the North Atlantic/European region in a climate forced by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases and to compare with present day conditions.

Argo Project - Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that will measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean in or near real-time. The programme involves a team of International scientists.

Sediment Transport and Boundary Layer Equipment (STABLE) - STABLE is a large instrument to measure sea bed currents. Rapidly changing 3-D turbulent currents are measured by three pairs of electromagnetic current meters, while slower, tidal currents are measured by four, red Savonius rotors and a current-direction vane. Water depth and wave-induced pressure changes are measured by two pressure transducers, while suspended sediment concentration profiles are measured by three acoustic backscatter sensors. Housekeeping functions are measured by a compass, pitch and roll sensors and two temperature sensors.

Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) - A long time-series study of biogeochemical cycles of the sea near Bermuda.

Global AssimilatioN Applied to Modelling of European Shelf Seas (GANES) - This EU-CEO project will use satellite altimeter and radiometer data assimilated into global ocean models, to provide ocean current, temperature and salinity boundary conditions for shelf and coastal models which predict sea-levels and currents around Europe.

North East Atlantic, Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian sea experiment (NEAT GIN) - The NEAT GIN experiment took place during September-October 1989 at the Norwegian shelf edge near 68°N. Seven moorings, five in a closely-spaced cross-slope section, have proved a valuable precursor to the Shelf Edge Study (SES) west of Scotland. The NEAT GIN data analysis has now been completed.

New Millennium Observatory Network (NeMO NeT) - Hydrothermal vent monitoring - links intruments and a camera located within the caldera of a submarine volcano to the Internet.

Hydrothermal Vent Program (VENTS) - Established in 1984, conducts research on the impacts and consequences of submarine volcanoes and hydrothermal venting on the global ocean.

Initiative for international cooperation in ridge-crest studies (InterRidge) - An international and interdisciplinary initiative concerned with all aspects of mid-ocean ridges.

Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project - Provides quantitative data on global ocean bio-optical properties to the Earth science community. Subtle changes in ocean color signify various types and quantities of marine phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants), the knowledge of which has both scientific and practical applications.

Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) - a cooperative effort to generate a unified data set and to determine the global distribution and inventories of inorganic nutrients, both natural and anthropogenic carbon species and natural and bomb-produced radiocarbon from data acquired from several projects such as WOCE, JGOFS, OACES.

Florida Bay Circulation & Exchange Program - The study is designed to answer questions about the interchange between Florida Bay waters and the coastal waters of the Florida Keys. In addition, it will characterize the seasonal and potentially the annual variability in the background currents in Florida Bay and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment (ACSOE) - A UK NERC Thematic Research Programme to investigate the chemistry of the lower atmosphere (0 - 12 km) over the oceans. The studies aim to bring about a clearer understanding of natural processes in the remote marine atmosphere, and how these processes are affected by atmospheric pollution originating from the continents. This information is vital in understanding regional and global-scale changes in atmospheric chemistry and climate.

NERC Autosub Missions Thematic Programme (Autosub) - aims ultimately to provide scientists with the capability to collect routine physical, biological, chemical and geophysical data, to depths of 6000 metres and over transects of several thousands of kilometres via autonomous underwater vehicles.

Soviet / American Gas and Aerosol expedition II (SAGA II) - The overall goal of SAGA II was to evaluate the sources, distributions, and fates of climatically significant trace species in the remote, marine environment.

Climate Variability and Predictability (VLIVAR) - The German contribution to the international CLIVAR program contributes mainly to climate variability on scales of decadal and longer periods, with emphasis on the role of the ocean for the dynamics and predictability of long-term climate variations.

Bedford Basin Plankton Monitoring Program (BBPMP) - A weekly record of phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, nutrients, temperature, salinity and oxygen at the deepest point of the Halifax Harbour inlet system (Canada).

International Cooperative Study of the Gulf of Thailand (GoT) - A regional research programme for the sustainable management of the Gulf of Thailand. Objectives are to establish an institutional and information network on scientific and socio-economic data collection, exchange, analysis and integratio, to develop the capacity of the region to collect and analyze data, and to integrate multidisciplinary data into formats practically useable by various sectors.

International Marine Global Change Studies (IMAGES) - a global program to collect and study marine sediment records. The overriding IMAGES science issue is to quantify climate and chemical variability of the ocean on time scales of oceanic and cryospheric processes; to determine its sensitivity to identified internal and external forcings, and to determine its role in controlling atmospheric CO2.

Antarctic Circumpolar Current Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurements (ACCLAIM) - consists of measurements from coastal tide gauges and bottom pressure stations, together with an ongoing research programme in satellite altimetry in the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans.

The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) - The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) is an international programme coordinated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) for the establishment of high quality global and regional sea level networks for application to climate, oceanographic and coastal sea level research.

Comparative Analysis and Rationalization of Second-Moment Turbulence Models (CARTUM) - sets out to meet the challenge to merge theoretical aspects, new field observations, laboratory measurements, and computer-generated data sets with computational and numerical considerations with the ultimate goal of significantly improving second-moment closure models.

Coastal Area Modelling for Engineering in the LOng Term (CAMELOT) - An ambitious seven-year programme of research into the development of methods for making predictions of coastal morphology over periods of up to decades.

Ecosystem Processes from Estuary to Shelf (EMPRESS) - A single programme, comprising three project elements, with an overall objective to reduce uncertainties in key processes in estuarine, coastal and shelf ecosystems, and an aspiration to develop better forecasting and predictive models. EMPRESS is highly interdisciplinary with numerous linkages between the three elements. The programme focuses on strategic issues of national and international importance and is highly relevant for the global societal needs of climate change and sustainability.

CLImatic VAriability of the Mediterranean Paleo-circulation (CLIVAMP). - CLIVAMP is a research program whose objective is to investigate the long term variations of the thermohaline circulation of the Mediterranean Sea for time scales ranging from interannual up to changes during the ice ages. CLIVAMP will thus study the different states of the Mediterranean Sea during the past, its paleo-circulation and the processes affecting the ventilation and the overturning of the water masses.

COupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for REgioNal Shelf seas (COHERENS) - COHERENS is a European funded project for the scientific and technical validation and the dissemination and exploitation of a three-dimensional integrated model for coastal and shelf seas developed over the period 1990-1996 within two previous MAST projects.

Observations and Modelling of Eddy Scale Geostrophic and Ageostrophic circulation (OMEGA) - Aims to study the three-dimensional ageostrophic circulation and quantitatively estimate the vertical velocity and to evaluate the impact of the ageostrophic vertical motion on biogeochemical properties.

Integrated Coastal Zone Management in France, Norway and Greece (COASTMAN) - Comparative analysis of institutional arrangement experiences and needs for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in France, Norway and Greece.

Acoustic Monitoring of the Ocean Climate in the Arctic Ocean (AMOC) - The overall aim of this project is to explore, simulate and design an acoustic concept for long-term monitoring of the ocean temperature and ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean for global warming detection.

Autonomous Lander Instrument Packages for Oceanic Research (ALIPOR). - The principal aim of this EC MAST III initiative is to create a European fleet of autonomous lander vehicles that can operate together in joint research projects. The different groups will build lander vehicles to carry out a variety of experiments ranging from sediment probes to fish tracking.

Baltic Air-Sea-Ice Study (BASIS). - An EC MAST III study to create and analyse experimental process data for optimization and verification of atmosphere-ice-ocean models.

Benthic Boundary layer in the deep ocean (BENBO) - A major inter-disciplinary, process-oriented study which will provide a dynamic bio-physico-chemical model to aid in the assessment of man's impact on the deep-sea.

Surface Current And Wave Variability EXperiment (SCAWVEX) - The SCAWVEX project is addressing problems in wave and current development and their interaction in shallow water environments. The primary object is to measure the spatial and temporal variability of waves and currents in coastal regions utilising the full range of state of the art measurement techniques and models.

Under Sea Ice and Pelagic Surveys (USIPS) - Utilises Autosub-1, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), to investigate the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ), and to assess the potential of AUVs for improving acoustic estimates of the biomass of fisheries resources.

Living with the Sea - Addressing the impact of sea level rise and the UK flood and coastal defence response on the internationally important habitats protected by the UK Habitats and Birds Directive.